When I post The Grapevine to the website I always have a read. The first page made me think….. so, being a bit of a data geek, I got on the Met Office website and downloaded some of their annual rainfall data. Here it is in 25 year blocks from 1873 to last year.

So the problem doesn’t seem to be rainfall….. the average amount of water that lands on us during the year has actually gone up !

Quote from David Black, CEO of Ofwat about Thames Water (thankfully not our water supplier !) following a £122m fine.
“Our investigation has uncovered a series of failures by the company to build, maintain and operate adequate infrastructure to meet its obligations.”
£18m of the fine was to do with paying “undeserved” dividends of nearly £170m to shareholders.

Made me think. Just thought others might be interested.